AI Costs Plummet: The Sky's the Limit (or is it?) 🚀

Well, shucks, folks! It seems like the cost of artificial intelligence is fallin’ faster than a barn door in a tornado. According to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, the cost of using any given level of AI drops by a whoppin’ ten-fold every year. That’s like buyin’ a new pair of shoes and gettin’ nine more pairs for free! 🤠

Altman said in a blog post, “The cost to use a given level of AI falls about 10x every 12 months, and lower prices lead to much more use.” Now, I ain’t no math whiz, but that sounds like a whole lotta savings to me! 📊

He also mentioned that the cost fell by around 150 times from their GPT-4 model in early 2023 to GPT-4o in mid-2024. That’s faster than a runaway stagecoach on a dusty trail! 🐴

Altman compared this to Moore’s Law, which says that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit doubles about every two years. But AI is like a wild mustang – it’s runnin’ free and fast, and nobody can catch it! 🐴

He predicted that the price of many goods would eventually fall dramatically, sayin’, “Right now, the cost of intelligence and the cost of energy constrain a lot of things.” But, he also said that the price of luxury goods and limited resources like land “may rise even more dramatically.” So, it’s like the old sayin’ goes: “The rich get richer, and the poor get poorer.” 🤑

Altman said he’s open to ideas like providin’ “compute budgets” to bring AI benefits to everyone globally. That’s like offerin’ a free ticket to the AI rodeo – everyone gets to ride! 🎟️

“We are open to strange-soundin’ ideas like giving some ‘compute budget’ to enable everyone on Earth to use a lot of AI, but we can also see a lot of ways where just relentlessly drivin’ the cost of intelligence as low as possible has the desired effect.”

Altman’s goal is to make AI accessible to everyone by 2035, so that anyone can have access to intellectual capacity equivalent to everyone in 2025. That’s like sayin’ everyone gets to be a genius – ain’t that just peachy? 🤓

“Everyone should have access to unlimited genius to direct however they can imagine.”

Now, I know what you’re thinkin’, “What’s the catch?” Well, it seems like the launch of the latest low-cost AI model from Chinese developer DeepSeek has got everyone in a tizzy. US companies like Nvidia are takin’ a hit, while Chinese automakers and tech firms are integratin’ the DeepSeek AI model into their offerings. It’s like the old west – everyone’s scramblin’ for a piece of the AI pie! 🍰

2025-02-10 06:15

AI Costs Plummet: The Sky’s the Limit (or is it?) 🚀

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